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will2358

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Columnar Trees
« on: July 16, 2019, 09:43:06 PM »
Does anyone know how columnar tress  are made. I have never read of a columnar citrus but I wonder if it could be done. You could certainly fit more in your and greenhouse if columnar.
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Re: Columnar Trees
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2019, 06:08:30 AM »
Normally, by genetic selection of fastigiate cultivars. In gen Citrus, by pruning and tying the branches to the trunk to force them grow in a narrow angle. Citrus is not a fastigiate growing kind of tree. They always develop a broad canopy with time. Stems in a very acute angle will catch rotten fruits, fallen leaves and diseases

Using several narrow trees, instead a single wider tree, mean less fruits and more trunks/wood in the same space. Multigrafting a tree looks like a better solution
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Re: Columnar Trees
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2019, 03:56:06 PM »
I tried to make a C tree out of poncirus to save space. It is 6 years old, looks like a stem with short branches and is unhappy. I dont think citrus is designed for the C shaping. Try apples, might work there.

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Re: Columnar Trees
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2019, 05:19:13 PM »
Normally, by genetic selection of fastigiate cultivars. In gen Citrus, by pruning and tying the branches to the trunk to force them grow in a narrow angle. Citrus is not a fastigiate growing kind of tree. They always develop a broad canopy with time. Stems in a very acute angle will catch rotten fruits, fallen leaves and diseases

Using several narrow trees, instead a single wider tree, mean less fruits and more trunks/wood in the same space. Multigrafting a tree looks like a better solution

I built one by accident. It wasn't meant to be columnar. The cultivar is the Sudachi hybrid. It develops fruits like grape clusters enclosing the stem. I marcotted one with lots of fruits, and so it looked like a columnar citrus. I gave it away as gift, long before our quarantine, I didn't care about columnar fruit trees.

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Re: Columnar Trees
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2020, 07:37:27 PM »
My Neighbors Poncitrus in Washington Dc.

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